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To cultural geographers like me, coins serve as vessels of passive and active public memory.
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Seth T. Kannarr, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
As far back as 150 A.D., when Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy introduced the idea of a frigid ocean near the earth’s North Pole, explorers and colonizers have vowed to traverse it, with the hopes of reducing travel time and finding a more direct trade route between Europe and Asia.
—Robin Catalano, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a Chadian environmental activist and geographer.
—Aniebiet Ntui, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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Seth T. Kannarr, The Conversation, 12 Dec. 2025
As far back as 150 A.D., when Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy introduced the idea of a frigid ocean near the earth’s North Pole, explorers and colonizers have vowed to traverse it, with the hopes of reducing travel time and finding a more direct trade route between Europe and Asia.
—Robin Catalano, AFAR Media, 15 Sep. 2025
While Indigenous groups have lived in the region for thousands of years, the river was largely introduced to the Western world when geographer John Wesley Powell ran his famed descent in 1869, shortly before becoming the first person to document rowing the Grand Canyon.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 13 Sep. 2025
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim is a Chadian environmental activist and geographer.
—Aniebiet Ntui, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
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“Geographer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/geographer. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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